Nikkei closes at 33-year high on hopes for U.S. debt ceiling deal

Low interest rates, cheap currency, solid corporate earnings. What's not to love?

I started buying units in a Nikkei fund and also Topix from 2010. Glad I did! It's more than doubled in value.

fake money that crush people via inflation

Congratulations people of Japan. This is where the BOJ has been funneling all that money they have been printing, whilst the prices of everything having been soaring. The Nikkei is back baby.

And the yen sinks again

Food prices continue to rise along with fuel and other imports

Japanese paying more and more of their uncompetitive salaries just to survive…

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Low interest rates, cheap currency, solid corporate earnings. What's not to love? 

I started buying units in a Nikkei fund and also Topix from 2010. Glad I did! It's more than doubled in value.

A melting currency, a big loss of purchasing power…etc , there is a lot not to love.

On top of that the 40% of the working force on arubaito, part time, contract does not really care to what happens to the Nikkei…

YEN is weakening while Nikkei is raising, it reminds me of Venezuela.

I dont think it will get thay bad, but yes, inflation is rife, and set to get worse. The high valuation if the Nikkei means absolutely nothing for the regular person.

Who writes these speculative ”news” as facts ?! Nobody knows why the Nikkei soars, most likely nothing to do with US and their debt ceiling. Please just print the facts. ”Nikkei closed above 30,000”, no need the commentary.

The Debt Ceiling is not much of problem,when the Senate recess for week for the Memorial Day holiday,only come back with 3 days until it expires with no resolution

Nikkei is up. GDP is good. Wages are up. Inflation has peaked out. Yen is cheap (Good). Tourism is back. Manufacturing is coming back to Japan (one out of four Japanese manifacturers have brought it back to Japan). Investors are investing in Japan again.

Good news for some people.

Listening to JT commenters, you’d think the Yen was worth less than the Zimbabwean Dollar.

The high valuation if the Nikkei means absolutely nothing for the regular person.

Huh? The government's pension fund is heavily invested in Japanese stocks. So are Japanese people's retirement plans, like NISA and Ideco.